10 Podcasts like Standoff
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1. Witnessed: Mystic Mother
For years, the Phoenix Goddess Temple claimed to offer “seekers” healing through sensual touch. But when an outsider exposes what’s happening behind closed doors, the temple unknowingly welcomes in a new kind of seeker—undercover detectives. What som...Show More
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Borderlands | Chapter 3: Just Say No
37:11 | Sep 14th, 2021
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Beloved local sheriff Rick Thompson takes on a starring role as an anti-narcotics crusader in the Reagan Administration's War on Drugs. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
2. Persona: The French Deception
What does it feel like to pick up the phone and scam someone out of $50 million? This is the story of Gilbert Chikli, one of the greatest con artists of all time. Host and award-winning journalist Evan Ratliff investigates how Chikli duped some of th...Show More
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36:03 | Jun 6th, 2022
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In Paris, a banker receives a bizarre call from her boss. He says she'll soon be contacted by a secret agent about a confidential government operation.The instructions provided by the agent are simple...Show More
3. Over My Dead Body
Over My Dead Body is an anthology series about people who are pushed beyond their limits and do unspeakable things.Season 3: Fox Lake - A small town cop is gunned down in a swamp in the summer of 2015. He quickly became a martyr in the national media...Show More
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37:03 | Feb 12th, 2019
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What makes a good marriage? Dan is smitten when he meets Wendi. But after a lavish wedding and a move to Tallahassee for Dan’s job, cracks in their relationship start to appear. Dan is blindsided when...Show More
4. The Dropout
Money. Romance. Tragedy. Deception. The story of Elizabeth Holmes and Theranos is an unbelievable tale of ambition and fame gone terribly wrong. How did the world’s youngest self-made female billionaire lose it all in the blink of an eye? How did the...Show More
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45:27 | Jan 23rd, 2019
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On the premiere episode of The Dropout, you'll meet a young Elizabeth Holmes. Convinced of her own destiny even as a young child, she would come to drop out of Stanford in her late teens, intending to...Show More
AUDIO REMOVED: The podcast creator has removed the audio for this episode.5. The Last Voyage of the Pong Su
A North Korean dictator, bags of heroin, drug lords, spooks, sailors, Australian cops and a web of lies: Come aboard The Last Voyage of The Pong Su.
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30:22 | Oct 7th, 2019
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Episode one. North Korean cargo ship the Pong Su comes dangerously close to Australia’s Great Ocean Road shoreline as part of a high-risk, high-reward operation to import a record amount of hero...Show More
6. The Sure Thing
The Sure Thing is the untold story of how two university friends hatched a near perfect crime, only to be undone by the desire for more. Angus Grigg pieces together Australia's biggest insider trading scam in a new six-part podcast from The Australia...Show More
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17:40 | Apr 11th, 2021
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Chris meets up for a beer with the man who reported him to authorities – a second chance and unlikely opportunity follow.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
7. The Line
In 2018, a group of Navy SEALs broke ranks and accused their chief, Eddie Gallagher, of murder—sucking them all into the biggest war crimes trial in a generation. Did a Navy SEAL cross the line in Iraq? Dan Taberski (“Running from COPS”) takes you in...Show More
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41:23 | Apr 6th, 2021
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In 2017, during the Battle for Mosul in Iraq, a young ISIS fighter is taken prisoner and brought to the SEALs of Alpha Platoon, SEAL Team 7. The prisoner dies in their custody—and the SEALs from Alpha...Show More
8. Firebug
For ten years, a serial arsonist terrorized Southern California, burning down businesses in broad daylight. Four people were murdered. Then, a manuscript for a novel led investigators to the last person they would have ever suspected. Firebug is pa...Show More
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30:40 | Jul 21st, 2021
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In 1991, federal investigators arrest an arsonist in Los Angeles. In his home, they find a manuscript for a novel about a firebug burning down California. Is the book a work of fiction, or the confess...Show More
9. Bad Women: The Blackout Ripper
The streets of wartime London are pitch black and the darkness offers cover to a murderer every bit as terrible as Jack the Ripper. During one awful week in February 1942 he viciously attacks women night after night. But the victims of the so-called ...Show More
10. The White Saviors
Over 25 years, WE built a golden brand by inspiring children to rally around their charismatic leader. But behind the scenes, employees experienced a cult-like culture and a troubling blur of charitable and commercial activities. In the aftermath of ...Show More
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Chapter One – The Children's Crusade
31:37 | Aug 20th, 2021
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Craig Kielburger was the Greta Thunberg of the 90s – a 12 year-old kid from the suburbs who dreamed of freeing the world’s children from slavery. His activism made him famous, and he was endorsed by O...Show More